Ukraine abandons neutrality, looks to join NATO

Guardian:

The Ukrainian parliament has renounced the country’s non-aligned status with the aim of eventually joining Nato, to the anger of Moscow, which views the western alliance’s eastward expansion as a security threat.

Kiev first announced its intention of seeking the protection of Nato membership in August, following what it deemed the open participation of Russia’s military in a separatist war in Ukraine’s eastern provinces.

Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, called Ukraine’s renunciation of its neutral military and political status a “counterproductive” step that would only boost tensions around the crisis in the east.
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The Russians have certainly pushed the Ukraine government into the arms of NATO.  The Russian aggression made sustaining neutrality impossible.